Local health care systems prepare for looming Medicare cuts

Medicare among federal programs losing dollars

9:36 PM,
Nov. 22, 2012

Written by

Larry Avila
Gannett Wisconsin Media

Years of working on streamlining operations to improve efficiencies in care delivery seem to be paying off for the Fox Cities health care systems.

Appleton-based ThedaCare and Menasha-based Affinity Health System expect to lose millions of dollars in Medicare funding beginning in January, but representatives for both systems say they don't expect any disruption or reduction in services.

Medicare is among the federal programs set to lose 2 percent of its funding as part of $1.2 trillion in spending cuts approved in summer 2011 as part of a deficit reduction initiative. This is in addition ...